Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

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During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...